Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.